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From: charlesv@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Charles van Duren)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: one or two cultures?
Summary: Canadian, not *-Canadian
Message-ID: <964@auvax.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 21 Jul 89 15:55:11 GMT
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In article <609@philmtl.philips.ca>, tremblay@philmtl.philips.ca (Michel Tremblay) writes:
> In article <89Jul19.104948edt.18727@me.utoronto.ca> flint@me.utoronto.ca (Kenneth Flint) writes:
> >In article <604@philmtl.philips.ca> tremblay@philmtl.philips.ca (Michel J. Tremblay) writes:
> >>Please keep in mind that most people in Que'bec dont really care 
> >>about Canada (Day).
> > 
> 
> I dont know how you can talk about 'our (canadian) culture' without using
> plurial.  Canada like many other countries (Swiss, Belgium...) do not have a 
> true culture but is composed of a many cultures. For Canada that is an 
> English Canadian culture and a French Canadian culture.

If you lived in the West, you would not say "English-Canadian" culture. There is
no such thing out here; nor is there in Ontario. That is perhaps a large part
of the problem. The rules were established before the settlement of the West,
and before non-British Isles immigration. It would behoove Quebecois to
remember this when dealing with the rest of Canada.

Charles van Duren (Canadian, not Dutch-Canadian)

"considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
Gertrude Stein